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  1. Let’s see a show of hands from those who care what Fontana thinks.
  2. They’ve got that Tom Herman thing going, where, for example, we had a room full of WRs that were highly rated recruits, with none distinguishing themselves, and say, “we’re deep at that position”. Sark came in, fresh from his Alabama roster, and said, “Why do I have 18 WRs on scholarship, and none that can play?”
  3. I’ve been reading SoonerScoop. They believe they have the nation’s best DL. Reason- it’s their deepest position, with the fewest concerns, so…it has to be the nation’s best? I mean- you’d think they might take a look at a couple other team’s DLs, like Georgia or Ohio State? For comparison?
  4. Yeah. In a way, it was the MNC that exposed all the flaws in “loss column bias”, setting the stage for Alkiance Bowls, BCS and CFP. The egregious ones are those claimed by Auburn and SMU (among others) for years where we all remember nobody thought they were champs.
  5. Really fucking stupid. Like the Mannings, of all people, wouldn’t have already considered that?
  6. Cool, just as long as you understand- the point t of this thread isn’t to provide a hangout for the handful (five or less) of Tech fans. It’s to provide a place for the tens of thousands of Longhorn fans to mock and deride Tech. https://www.theunticket.com/the-texas-tech-elite-doll/
  7. I’m talking about real NCs.
  8. My take when I saw the game on live TV- if the official on the field called it bad, it wouldn’t have been reversed under review (it wasn’t) and if it had been called good on the field, it wouldn’t have been reversed under review. A crazy call that really could have legitimately gone either way.
  9. It cracks me up that you think the “Left Behind…” thread is for treating former conference members with respect. That it upsets you when we don’t. Here is a fun thought- how do you think the BU AD office conversations go when they discuss trying to set up a home and home with UT?😂
  10. Ha-ha-ha-ha! In the Bible, Jesus said what we do to and for the least of us, we do to and for Him. Baylor University roofied Jesus, ran a train on Him, and when He complained, they told Him to fuck off.
  11. My memory- it started in 2008. It wasn’t just that B12 coaches voted OU and TT ahead of Texas, in the votes determining the B12 south champ (and then BCS CG), but that they voted Texas down artificially (6th or lower). It was clearly a vote to create space for OU. My guess? They didn’t want a Longhorn team at peak capacity, dominating the Texas recruiting the whole conference relied on. It is hard to describe how pissed Texas was. (Hell, I still am). ‘Stache, remember that maybe-missed FG against ISU? Imagine replay showed it clearly good, and the review still disallowed it, after consulting with conference ADs. That’s how pissed we were. (in the off season, a photo showed the team conference hall, where 2008 -with an asterisk- was up there on the list of conference champions. Texas was roundly mocked for that. That didn’t help the mood in Bellmont, or the Tower or the BoR). Texas was done playing nice. The plan was to develop the LHN and weaponize it. Screw the conference- we were no longer going along with the fiction that their third tier content was worth anything. We were going to have specials about star HS recruits and big HS games, and the LHN was going to highlight Texas as the place to be and play. The league (especially the Texas schools) pitched a shit fit. Texas had to back down. But, Texas decided the B12 really wasn’t a collegial confeeence wheee everyone supports everyone else being as good as they can be. And Texas really started to look out for itself.
  12. Yes, Texas didn’t want to sign on to Larry Scott’s vision for taking the PAC to a new level (Scott said, basically, my way or the highway). How shortsighted!
  13. You think there is a connection? Explain it.
  14. The B12 and ACC have good media contracts for another seven years. What we saw in 2024: B12 games can’t draw media viewers in numbers needed to support those payments, now that the SEC and B1G have a bunch of better matchups. That’s why Farmageddon is in Ireland on week 0. That’s why a bunch of B12 games will be played in Thursday and Friday. That’s why ESPN is selling inventory to TNT. That’s why FSU and Clemson believe getting to the SEC or B1G is an existential need. Now, there will be a larger and better inventory of SEC games. ESPN really wants that. The next media contracts will increase the gap between SEC/B1G and ACC/B12. When we look back on 10-20 years ago, and wonder how this happened, a reflective IR8 fan or booster might wonder, “Is there anything we could have done to keep Texas and OU happy here? To have kept that first domino from falling, or even delayed it?” People tend to be self centered, so they’ll probably just decide, “Naw. Those Longhorns are just big selfish jerks”. They’ll never realize what huge strategic errors the coaches’ votes in 2008 were, the hostility against letting Texas really weaponize the LHN was too, that the fun from seeing Deterding screw the Horns in 2015 was self defeating. The Lilliputian’s did as they wanted and Gulliver split town.
  15. The thing is- y’all couldn’t win NCs before. In the BCS era, NCs were won by teams in the SEC, B1G and a couple of ACC teams that might get into the SEC or B1G. Of B12 teams, the only ones to win MNCs were Colorado (1990) and TCU (1935, 1938). What you could do, and you hate that these days might be over, is beat a blue blood and screw up their season. Those were games that delighted IR8 schools and they hate that they’re diminished
  16. True rivalries are unique. We hate OU, but we’d play them in a parking lot if we had to, and they feel the same about us. Alabama-Auburn and UGA-Florida are similar, I think. A lot of so-called rivalries are pretty weak. TCU and Baylor have played 130 times but either o e would give the game up for a magic bean (and either would surrender their first born for a home and home with Texas). Arkansas, back in the oldest SWC days, had a regular OOC game with Ile Miss, often played in Memphis. The ACC needs to go to nine conference games, but I bet they don’t get offered the same payout that the SEC teams do.
  17. On SoonerScoop, someone checked with the Fasusi camp, and the kid got a couple of IVs last night and expects to be back at practice, soon. (I think they are being optimistic). Also, their indoor facility doesn’t have AC, yet.
  18. Sark is great. He has this program in as solid of a place as many of us have ever seen, and better than all of us expected to see again. I would love ten more years of this. Sark is also a recovered alcoholic, who has had rib splitting heart surgery and may have an eventful personal life. I am just enjoying each day he is here and not counting on anything too far in the future.
  19. I saw where a SoonerScoop moderator was saying that they had five CBs they could play, which sounds like a strength. I’ve been paying attention long enough to know that “5 CBs that can play” really means “five bodies at CB, and none have separated themself”.
  20. You have to admit,…James Thurber
  21. They are really believing: Wow. Deepest defense since 2003 and deepest OL since 2017. The former team played for the BCS championship and the latter played in the CFP.
  22. Sounds like, per Sooner Scoop, that Fasusi has some heat issues holding him out.
  23. Crap! I forgot to mention- the feds were zeroing in on Thompson for dealing drugs, and interviewed Switzer about him. Switzer got in the phone to Thompson and told him to get rid or hide all the evidence. I’m not a lawyer, but I think this is obstruction? No charges on Switzer, though.
  24. I agree, but also- Blalock and Sendlein were multi year NFL quality starters, Scott would have been without his rookie injury, Studdard was a NFL journeyman and Will Allen (like Lole this year) decided he was good, he had accomplished what he wanted to.
  25. I had started a series of posts about the misdeeds of Sooner football a few months ago, but stalled out in1982, with Switzer evading jail for DWI and penalties for Insider Trading. How do you describe the malfeasance, shenanigans and felonies (or, as Switzer described it, “the doping, raping and shooting”) of Sooner football in the 1980s? How can it be done justice? You just have to dive in. First, let’s talk about coaching. Texas had figured out how to use assignment defense to shut down the Sooners wishbone (required comparable athletes, and the Horns had them in the early ‘80s). Switzer made a coaching decision- he was switching to the pro set “I”. He recruited a QB, Aikman, and a RB, Marcus Dupree (he won a bidding war for DuPree’s services). Dupree was an immediate star, but Switzer only got a couple of years out of him (he describes in his book how it was all DuPree’s fault, and also blames the “advisor” from back home- the same guy the Sooners were giving money to to secure DuPree’s commitment. Imagine that- a bought player doesn’t stay bought). The pro set wasn’t working, mainly because Switzer had no clue how to coach it nor how to find assistants to coach it. They abandoned the “I”, returned to the Wishbone they knew, got Aikman injured running it, and he transferred to UCLA so he could begin his HoF career. Bosworth, the Boz, was another of Switzer’s stars. Switzer enjoyed all the attention gained from his brashness, until that same brashness attracted too much attention from regulatory bodies, curious about payments and PEDs, at which point the Boz was let go. But, OU was winning. Texas was down, they really only had to beat Nebraska in the Big 8, and if they didn’t have Miami (coached by Jimmy Johnson, who knew the Sooners all too well), there were few teams that could beat them. They won the MNC in 1985. They had a lot of talent, enabled by their total no -concern with character. The crimes piled up- an ugly gang rape in the dorm (later, Aikman, who had no respect for Switzer, said he would not let his girlfriend around his teammates), drug dealing by starting QB Charles Thompson, and a shooting of one player by another. It all came to a head and Switzer resigned. In his book, Switzer says none of that was his fault and he shouldn’t have been pressured to resign. What he doesn’t say- a key assistant coach and running buddy of Switzer, Scott Hill, was arrested and sent to jail for selling cocaine. The university was under pressure to investigate whether Switzer was also dealing in cocaine. By resigning, Switzer avoided having to answer those questions. How good of a coach was Barry Switzer? I’d say, probably as good as Bobby Collins, another guy with an amazing winning percentage that no other program wanted to hire to coach a rules abiding program. His success was almost entirely a creation based on his willingness to cheat.
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